Innovative Public-legal Regimes: what Makes them Innovative? Some Initial Thoughts

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of determining the content and ontology of innovative public-legal regimes. The author gives the author’s concept of legal understanding and interpretation of the concept of “legal regime”.Key questions raised in the article — what specifically gives grounds to consider one or another public-legal regime as innovative. What is the core of the novelty in the ontology that allows us to talk about it?The article emphasizes that today a great many definitions of the concept of “innovation” are known and used, but most of them in relation to public-legal regimes do not provide any clear meaningful characteristics.Glancing at the topic of innovation in the regulatory space, the author concludes that a legal innovation can be: 1) a fundamentally new regulatory solution in the form of a proposal for legislative changes; 2) a fundamentally new law enforcement procedure, an algorithmic chain; 3) a new law enforcement approach; 4) a new legal principle intended for embedding in the activities of public administration bodies; 5) a new paradigm in operating regulatory tools, goals, results, benefits.The author declares the article as posing a scientific problem, but at the same time the author offers a conceptual answer to the above questions.